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[#540] project: nsc priority: medium category: bug
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Stephane Sean won't fix 2006-03-01 15:01:24.0
subject FileNotFoundException using option -d
code
lamppc23:~/projects/scala> ./dists/latest/bin/scalac -d /tmp/classes test.scala
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: output location "/tmp/classes" not found
        at scala.tools.nsc.util.ClassPath$Build.<init>(ClassPath.scala:160)
        at scala.tools.nsc.Global.<init>(Global.scala:130)
        at scala.tools.nsc.Main$.process(Main.scala:51)
        at scala.tools.nsc.Main$.main(Main.scala:69)
        at scala.tools.nsc.Main.main(Main.scala)
what happened
Scala 1 did create "/tmp/classes" for you. What about Scala 2 ?!
what expected
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Changes of this bug report
Stephane  edited on  2006-03-01 15:01:47.0
Sean  edited on  2006-03-01 15:06:50.0
Not sure if thats a good idea. Javac (nor any other compiler that I know of) doesn't have such behavior and it seems a bit dangerous. Could easily implement if you really want this behavior though.
Gilles  edited on  2006-03-27 17:54:17.0